Distributed

Distributed Java 2 Platform Database Development

Format: Paperback
Author: Stewart Birnam
ReleaseDate: 06 December, 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Rating:

Excellent practical examples
I like the fact that this is a "simple" book. The author provides excellent examples and the source is available. So many today are thick, bulky paperweights with poor examples or confusing theory. This book is the opposite. I could easily take the lessons and implement them within a few hours.

My only regret is that the author did not spend time telling us why his rather lightweight API was better than an EJB -or- when to use his approach and when to use EJB's (transaction management?, security?, sessions?).

too much source code
covers many areas but superficially. too much source code and javadoc (one third of the book!).

Very practical
Perhaps some of the API documentation at the rear could be sacrificed for further discussion of design issues. While this book contains excellent practical, real world examples, it is a little light-on in some aspects. It is more readable than Reese's Database Programming with JDBC and Java, but a little frustrating in that the excellent code examples are not available for download or on CD. Otherwise excellent for those who need to get to work.